Practice Management News

The nonprofit organization ElevateMeD Inc. has announced its 2023-’24 Scholars Program cohort, a group of 25 underrepresented medical students from across the country who each will be awarded a $16,500 tuition-based scholarship.

Medical drama television episodes with narratives about e-cigarette- or vaping-associated lung injury — or EVALI — garnered more than 600 reactions from viewers on Twitter, according to a study published in Journal of Health Communication.

U.S. adults who reported negative health care experiences because of discrimination based on their race or ethnicity were less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a study found.

Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, announced Friday that she will resign as CDC director at the end of June.

WHO said Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic no longer constitutes a global public health emergency of international concern, citing reduced risks to human health driven by high population-level immunity and vaccination.

The FDA on Wednesday approved the world’s first vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, which followed years of failed attempts by scientists to develop one.

Recent efforts from major residency and fellowship programs in the United States have sparked discussion about health care workers unionizing.

Nearly half of health care workers who tested positive for COVID-19 continued working at least part of 1 day with symptoms, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Among the various types of liability that physicians may face, including employee claims, HIPAA violations, cyber liability and slip-and-fall injuries, medical malpractice may be the most impactful.

Use of a nurse navigator led to the discovery of more patients eligible for low-dose CT lung cancer screening and more screenings ordered, according to results published in Annals of Family Medicine.